One of the major plus points of the company I work for is the amount of holiday allowance I get- It's huge, after having been there so long. So in 2012 when home was the last place I wanted to be, I ended up away every single time I had vacation time! This included 4 different trips abroad and another week spent in the Lake District with my dad. Soon after returning from Tenerife I again felt the urge to just get away so I started looking at dirt cheap holi...

So in the winter of 2011/2012 my personal life underwent a few big changes in a relatively short amount of time. Anyone that knows me, will know I don't do change well and so I felt quite lost for a long time. But with my friends understanding this, it was suggested by Jill that we follow through on going on a girlie holiday with our friend Jeannette as we'd spoken about doing for a couple of years. So with Jill making calls to sweet talk her way into the best...

So after thoroughly enjoying our Thomson cruise the year before, Annie and I decided to try another one of there's. This time sailing the Western Med. We began our trip by flying from Bournemouth to Majorca in the early hours, leaving a wet and dreary Britain behind- no real surprise there, despite it being June! Luckily when we landed a few short hours later, we were greeted by a sunny summers day. So after transferring to Thomson Destiny we decided to ma...

In 2010 I was beginning to travel more, and the more I did, the more I wanted to explore. At that time I was still with Mike my ex boyfriend and while we would go away together twice a year, we would always stick to the UK as Mike doesn't have the travel bug. However that was about to change! After much pestering from myself (yep, I know, what a shocker ) we agreed to go abroad for a week and Mike was to pick the 'where' of it. As it turned out, one place he ha...

One of my favorite holidays to date was my 2nd cruise with Annie which was named 'Aegean Discovery'. This time we were on a Thomson Cruise so it was a lot more relaxed and casual than our last but we soon grew to love it for this very reason. With the ports of call being in Turkey and Greece (both firsts for us), the weather and scenery were just fantastic and it was the first time I saw for myself that those images on the front of travel magazines, they really d...